Spaceflights

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Diploma (1969) and
Ph.D. in physics from the University of Berlin, 1972;
from 53 European candidates for the 1977
ESA
Spacelab-1 selection one of six German candidates, but not selected then;
Assistant Professor of physics; hobbies: Flying; ocean-sailing, photography,
music, reading; since 1987 Professor and Director, Institute of
Spacetechnology, University of Berlin, and manager of Space Institute Berlin
and the SpaceTech GmbH, Berlin, he died in a crash of a Me-108
Taifun plane.